When it comes to Android on Verizon, there are some seriously excellent choices, and what it has to come down to is: is the Fascinate at the top of that heap? From where we stand, the answer is an obvious „no.“

[…] we couldn’t help but feel like we should still be able to expect more. Cheap doesn’t have to mean low quality. […] The customizations feel as though they went through barely any quality control at all, the phone’s slower than we know the MSM7x27 series is capable of performing, and nothing about the hardware inspires us. Sure, it’s unquestionably a better value than the $150 Devour, but that doesn’t make it a good value.

All things considered, it’s a showstopping phone whose potential is mutilated by ill-considered, ugly software that’s poorly done. The screen is sharp, colorful, resoundingly impressive. The guts are quick. The build is sculpted and robust. Unfortunately, you can’t really get around bad software—it’s is how a user touches hardware.

As noted earlier, there have not been widespread reports of reception difficulties with the Verizon iPhone 4, and Verizon’s network […] But given our findings, we believe the possibility exists for individual users to experience the problem since low signal conditions are unavoidable when using any cell-phone network.